Don’t Tease The Kid With The Baseball Bat

On the 12th of April in 2005, 15-year-old Jeremy Rourke, a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier than 13-year-old Greg Harris, shoved the smaller boy into a concession stand twice.

Greg Harris hefted his baseball bat and swung twice at Jeremy Rourke, hitting him first in the knee. As Rourke doubled over in pain, Greg Harris hit him as hard as he could in the head – a strike that killed the older boy.

Originally convicted of second-degree murder, in January of 2007, an appeals court decided that Greg Harris had acted “In the heat of passion” and dropped the severity of the charge from murder to voluntary manslaughter.

Tied and Beaten

Joshua Sadowski was babysitting an 8-year-old boy and his brother while their mother Karen Smith was out shopping on Sunday, August 12th, 2007.

Evidently the boy did something to annoy Joshua Sadowski, because he took the 8-year-old to a shed behind the house, suspended the kid to a rafter, tied his hands together with nylon straps and shoved a rag into his mouth.

That done, Joshua beat the boy with a metal pipe and a plank of wood until the kid’s mom, back from her shopping, walked into the shed and screamed for help.

After being arrested on the 13th of August, Joshua Sadowski told police that he didn’t hurt the boy, despite the fact that police finding a number of red marks on the kid’s body.